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About This Project
Summary
For nearly 50 years, abortion provider Renee Chelian has cared for patients while confronting blockades, threats, violence, and an ever-changing legal landscape. In this episode of My Body. My Pod., host Mini Timmaraju draws on Chelian’s extraordinary firsthand history to show that reproductive freedom requires more than legal rights on paper: patients and providers must be able to safely access care. The episode connects one woman’s story to a defining civil and human rights fight.
Goals & Objectives
Use intimate, firsthand storytelling to illuminate the human stakes of reproductive freedom; document nearly 50 years of abortion access history through someone who lived it; and help audiences understand why protecting patients, providers, and clinic access is essential to protecting the right to a
Results & Impact
The episode preserved a rare firsthand account spanning nearly five decades of the fight for abortion access and brought that history to new audiences through video, audio, social, and digital distribution—turning a complex legal and political fight into an urgent, deeply human story about freedom,
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